I picked up some old CRTs from an ewaste find and had real trouble getting them to work around 2022.
I found a guy in southern California that can fix them but he was 2+ hours away and the monitors weighted around 100 pounds.
Just a few weeks ago I finally made the drive and got the first one repaired. It needed a few small parts and a service, but had a new picture tube installed.
It was a Sony BVM-D24E1WU.
The other monitor takes about 10 minutes to warm up. Pat the repair guy told me it would only support sd resolutions (480i) I didn’t take it for repair since I didn’t know what I would hook up to a SD only monitor. That one was a Sony BVM-20F1U.
Doing some quick searches it seems I got super lucky in the model both displays they were, as well as finding someone who knows how to fix them.
It seems that I should do some retro gaming. My retro system is a PS3 . Is there anything that just wows on these displays?
Does anyone have an HDMI to sdi recommendation? How do I de-embed the audio?
Seriously, it was rare/very short lived to see a PS3 played on displays that weren’t LCD’S or plasmas
I only had a projector when i got my ps3
It was glorious!
I used a projector and optical out to a receiver with a duel boot of yellowdog Linux on my first PS3. The “bread box” I guess they called it later. Great machine.
Speak for yourself, I used to play my Xbox 360 on a bad boy like this one
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The adapters probably cost more than replacing the tv at that point. That would have RGB, or even a video. What did it have other than coax?
At least here in Europe we had SCART for CRTs. SCART is multipurpose connection, that supports variety of cables, including RGB. There was no adapter needed.
Ah, it was what we called RCA for long time of my youth here. Left right audio, and shit video connection. (Grew up in U.S., Florida)